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Creator: Mme. E. Saunders

Date: 1895

Two piece dress of tan brocade with light blue accents and satin ribbon of light blue and brown; hourglass silhouette. Bodice (a) is boned; band collar closes at center back with metal hooks and eyes; leg o'mutton sleeves; four back princess seams,…

Date: 1891

Listed in their 1891 catalog at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 22nd Street

Date: 1896

Wanamaker's opens a NY branch of its Philadelphia store at the site that had been A.T. Stewart, then Denning, then Hilton Hughes, at Broadway and 10th

Date: 1892

Hilton Hughes takes over the former Denning store, which had formerly been A.T. Stewart, at Broadway and 10th

Date: 1858

R. H. Macy & Co. store opens at 14th st. and Sixth av. in 1858

Date: 1891

Le Boutillier Bros. store opens on 14th Street in 1891

Photograph of Katherine Iris Arnold, Class of 1895. This Vassar graduate chose to wear a style, which includes lapels and a stand collar, very similar to the green taffeta dress, VC1992014. Courtesy of Archives & Special Collections Library, Vassar…

Photograph of Helen M. Slade, Class of 1894This portrait, like several others from the mid-1890s and beyond, pictures a Vassar student wearing an assertive, menswear-inspired ensemble, a style adopted largely by the so-called emancipated women at…

Students carry a daisy chain for Class Day, 1895. © Vassar College, Archives & Special Collections Ref. #Ph.f4.12

Date: 1890-1900

Teal green dress with cream lace collar and long pleats from neck to hem at back.; teal green cotton; possibly linen lining; cream lace; blue grosgrain ribbon; blue velvet; metal hooks and eyes, possibly s-curve Edwardian silhouette with full…

black shawl, shaped to shoulders, 4 rows of pom=poms, black fringe

cream wool swing coat, lace on front, full sleeves

brown velvet bodice w/see through sleeves and embroidery + floral pattern; brown velvet bodice w/see through sleeves and embroidery + floral patternbrown velvet bodice, hook and eye CF closure added later on top of former hook and eye closure,…

Creator: Maison Levilion

black bodice w/white lace undersleeves + ball decorations; black bodice w/white lace undersleeves + ball decorations-black silk jacket, chiffon overlayer, sheer netting overlayer with velour decoration, black lace with ball fringe top layer; black…

black bodice w/beading @neck + orange silk chiffon at sleeves and neck; black bodice w/beading @neck + orange silk chiffon at sleeves and neck-black silk faille fitted bodice; modest mutton sleeves tapered to wrist, gathered around arm holes in…